Cybersecurity researchers have identified a new strain of Linux malware that not only mines cryptocurrency illicitly, but provides the attackers with universal access to an infected system via a “secret master password.” TrendMicro’s latest blog also reveals that Skidmap attempts to mask its cryptocurrency mining by faking network traffic and CPU-related statistics. High CPU usage is considered the primary red flag of illicit cryptocurrency mining, which makes this functionality particularly dangerous. According to TrendMicro’s researchers, Skidmap demonstrates the “increasing complexity” of recent cryptocurrency-mining threats. Cryptocurrency mining malware is still a very real threat Initial infection occurs in a Linux process called crontab, a…
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Monday 16 September 2019
